April 2, 2005 - San Francisco Walking Tour

This event was attended by 20 friends, from SF, East Bay, Penisula, and South Bay. The majority carpooled from east or south bay and met at Paul's place near downtown SF. Then we took the #9 bus into downtown where we met up with a few more people at Museum of Modern Art, and then more at Powell & Market. Two others joined us after lunch time as well. All the details are on the bayareadragon.com site - topic 1489.

I must thank everyone for being on time, which made for planning and following the schedule so much easier! In fact, we went to all the places identified in the schedule/itinerary, and also made a stop at Fisherman's Wharf as a few people had never been there before. It was a fabulous day, sunny and clear with cool but not cold temperatures (except towards the end). We walked for a total of about 6 miles and saw lots of landmarks, neighborhoods, and even experienced the bus rides. Now everyone knows $1.25 can go a long way in SF :) I hope everyone had fun, it was great to meet you all and hope to see you in a future event!

Paul

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Metreon
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Marriot Hotel
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A building facing Union Sq
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Macy's
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Promotional event at Union Sq
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Union Sq
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Walking to Cable Car Museum
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A cable car on Powell St
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The Fairmont hotel
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Grace Cathedral
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Cable Car Museum
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Massive motors keep the cable car system running
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Cable Car Museum
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Cable Car Museum
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Vincent watching an old 'movie'
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Cable Car Museum
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Cable Car Museum
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Cable Car Museum
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Cable Car Museum - The Grip - used to attach cable car to the always-moving cable
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Heading to Chinatown
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Chinatown
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Chinatown
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Chinatown
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Chinatown - in front of Golden Gate Bakery
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Chinatown - local produce stores
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Lunch in Chinatown
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Lunch in Chinatown
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Spicy chicken with pepper, or is it Pepper with chicken?
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The restaurant most of us had lunch in
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The Golden Gate Bakery - you have to try their stuff
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North Beach - The Stinking Rose restaurant - good seafood.
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Columbus Av, Transamerica building in left background
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Sidewalk tables along Columbus Av restaurants
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Colors of the Italian flag
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Washington Sq in North Beach - beer & oyster festival
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Washington Sq
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Washington Sq
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Washington Sq - young Irish dancers for the festival
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On the way up to Coit Tower
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On the way up to Coit Tower
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Coit Tower
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View from Coit Tower
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View from Coit Tower
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View from Coit Tower
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Coit Tower
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View from Coit Tower
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View from Coit Tower
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Coit Tower
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Coit Tower
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Murals inside Coit Tower's ground floor
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Murals inside Coit Tower's ground floor
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Group pic at Coit Tower
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Group pic at Coit Tower
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Group pic at Coit Tower
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Descending from Coit Tower
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Descending from Coit Tower
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Filbert Steps
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Filbert Steps
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Photography notes: Photos taken with Canon 20D with a 17-40mm/4L lens. All handheld. ISO 100-1600. Some photos were cropped or otherwise slightly enhanced in Photoshop. 362 photos were taken for a total of 1.09 GB; 166are shown here. Time took to organize, enhance, narrate, and upload the photos: approximately 3 hours. Web files size: 10.6 MB. Photos are resized jpegs at 74% quality. No color management (Monitor RGB) in Photoshop.


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